Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-23
ITS USEFULNESS.
The Woman's Board of Missions

The WOmanss Board of Missions.
 NEW HAVEN, Sept. 22, 1887. To the Editor of the JOURNAL AND COURIER:
 Included in our work of city missions is a womans board of missions, of whose meetings and work your paper has often giv- eu generous notice. This board is composed of between thirty and forty ladies who are endeavoring to make special efforts for the benefit of such women and children in New Haven are not already reached in this way by others. It holds each week at our mission rooms on Meadow street a mothers meeting, girls sewing school and 8 chill dren's meeting. Also meeting each week in the woman's department of either the almshouse or the jail, with faithful visiting at the sick beds of the hospital every week. It also holds cottage meetings, with careful visiting of families from house to house in different parts of the city.
 The ladies who are members of the board give such volunteer service as they are able, | but for year or more past they have secur- ed the help of lady missionary who has charge of their work, under the general di- | rection of the superintendent of city mis- sions. But having previously engaged only part of her time, it has now become neces- sary to make such payment as shall secure | with her services through her removal from l the city.
 In this emergency it would seem as though | all that is required would be to let it be known that only about $1O0 is needed addi- | tional to what is already in hand for this pur- pose, to not only continue during the winter | work which is now being we'll done, but elso to secure an enlargement of this work. In the children's meeting alone more than | 150 boys and girls are pledged against drink, 1 tobacco and profanity. At the hospital dur ing the past winter and spring twenty four l sick persons are reported as either converted or reclaimed to religious life through the work of the lady missionary, Mrs. s. M. Fin ken, whose other labors were more fully stated in my last annual report. The work , at the almshouse and the jail has the cordial l commendation of the matron, and also other officers at each of these institutions, and 8 l number of the inmates have been saved from utter discouragement and helped to live bet ter lives.
 The members of the woman's board hold l an adjourned meeting at the city mission rooms, No. 192 Meadow street, at three o'clock l tomorrow (Friday) afternoon, to take final action on this matter of so much importance to others as we'll as to themselves. In their l behalf I would earnestly request that not | only ladies but anyone interested in the suc- cess of this much needed part of our mission l work, be present or send assurance of help | in either large or small amounts, payable l weekly or monthly, at such time during I the winter as will be most convenient to the givers Subscriptions may also be made through the treasurer of city mission, MT. G. w. Curtis, president of the City bank, and should be glad to call personally upon any who will notify me that they wish to have further information in regard to this or any other part of our work. Respectfully yours. | w. D. MossMAN,
 Superintendent City Missions